Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

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Permalink Reply by Seth-Deborah Roth on October 15, 2010 at 8:38pm

I have had 5 people with with RSD in the past 2 years. 2 children who healed fairly quickly (they were treated in the early stages). The adults have taken longer and really have had to work more consistently at healing. The 3 adults have made progress. One of the adults, just yesterday, is once again dating, smiling, off of prescription meds and looking forward to life.

These particular clients had emotional issues that were related to the injury or were going on before the injury. All of them needed those emotional issues to be released. Pain management skills were important but even more so, regaining a positive attitude was essential as well as daily stress management. Depression and anxiety need to be dealt with and we hypnotherapists can really help here. I had them listen to my hypnosis stress management CD every day or as often as possible. (that would vary indeed). I like to individualize healing images, as I feel whatever sparks their emotion image is the one to use.

Early intervention is better than late, as the RSD tends to spread and you can get severe muscle changes. During the atrophic stage, the skin becomes cool and shiny, increased muscle stiffness and weakness occur, and symptoms often spread to another limb. Skin, muscle, and bone atrophy are possible complications of RSD. The nerves also seem to get caught in a chronic pain loop if waiting too long.

Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on October 16, 2010 at 3:12am

HI,

Try this on for size--
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thematrix777/2010/06/11/living-with-rs...


Take care,

Michael E.

Seth-Deborah Roth said:

I have had 5 people with with RSD in the past 2 years. 2 children who healed fairly quickly (they were treated in the early stages). The adults have taken longer and really have had to work more consistently at healing. The 3 adults have made progress. One of the adults, just yesterday, is once again dating, smiling, off of prescription meds and looking forward to life.

These particular clients had emotional issues that were related to the injury or were going on before the injury. All of them needed those emotional issues to be released. Pain management skills were important but even more so, regaining a positive attitude was essential as well as daily stress management. Depression and anxiety need to be dealt with and we hypnotherapists can really help here. I had them listen to my hypnosis stress management CD every day or as often as possible. (that would vary indeed). I like to individualize healing images, as I feel whatever sparks their emotion image is the one to use.

Early intervention is better than late, as the RSD tends to spread and you can get severe muscle changes. During the atrophic stage, the skin becomes cool and shiny, increased muscle stiffness and weakness occur, and symptoms often spread to another limb. Skin, muscle, and bone atrophy are possible complications of RSD. The nerves also seem to get caught in a chronic pain loop if waiting too long.

Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on October 16, 2010 at 5:46am

I've seen 3 clients with this condition so far and, so far, all have resolved smoothly. The first one was in 1999 and she is still pain free. I have not kept in touch with the other two but assume they are still doing well also. For each of them I used a 5 session approach that started where glove anesthesia left off and also sneakily addressed any underlying emotional issues that were feeding the pain. Remember to address the fear or anxiety that people with chronic pain always have and release any secondary gain.

Remember, secondary gain is always positive so don't try to beat it up and destroy it. Otherwise, you will entrench it even more. You can learn this approach from my No More Pain book found at www.alabamahypnotherapycenter.com. It's an approach that works very well for most chronic pain issues. I get a lot of people referred from the Palliative Care Unit of one of our local hospitals so I see chronic pain patients almost every day of the week.

Usually the longer the patient has suffered with carpal tunnel syndrome the more damage that has been done to the nerves. They have been compressed for a long time before the surgery was done to release them. It takes that long for them to return to normal unless you instruct the unconscious mind to heal them faster. Surgeons seem to allude that the relief will be immediate, like loosening your belt after Thanksgiving lunch. I haven't seen that demonstrated in the people I've seen. So, absolutely, clean your hypnotherapist's house or paint their barn or do something so you can do more sessions, heal the nerves and end the pain.

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